now alipay users more than 150 millions. while ebay also have 150 millions users
alipay only 5 years old, while paypal 11 years old
PayPal
Q1 2009 Financials
- PayPal's revenues now represent 32% of eBay Inc. companywide revenues
- PayPal revenues for Q1 2009 were 643 million, up 11 percent year over year.
- PayPal's international business was 42 percent of revenues in Q1 2009.
- PayPal's Total Payment Volume, the total value of transactions in Q1 2009 was nearly $16 billion, up 10 percent year over year.
- Merchant Services Total Payment Volume was $8.4 billion in Q1 2009, up 26 percent year over year.
- Merchant Services Total Payment Volume as percent of Total Payment Volume was approximately 53 percent in Q1 2009.
- eBay Total Payment Volume as percent of Total Payment Volume was approximately 46 percent in Q1 2009.
- Bill Me Later Total Payment Volume as percent of Total Payment Volume was approximately 1 percent in Q1 2009.
- PayPal transacted about $2,039 in Total Payment Volume every second in Q1 2009.
- PayPal accounts contain approximately $3 billion in stored value that is spent every 2 weeks
https://www.paypal-media.com/documentdisplay.cfm?DocumentID=2260
Alipay
Alipay.com Co.,Ltd (AliPay) is China’s leading online payment service by both number of users and total transaction volume. A member of the Alibaba Group, it enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online. AliPay works like an escrow service, solving the issue of settlement risk in China.
Since its launch in 2004, AliPay has become the most popular and extensively used online payment tool for all areas of e-commerce in China, and is fast becoming the industry standard. As of 10 May 2009, AliPay had more than 180 million users and a daily transaction volume exceeding RMB700 million, through more than 4,000,000 daily transactions.
https://www.alipay.com/static/aboutalipay/englishabout.htm